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Where to download free music online?

Rose Parker

Jul 4, 2011

Getting music online for free doesn't have to cause you aggravation, and it doesn't have to be illegal. There are plenty of sites, where you can download legal music for free, without breaking any laws or causing anyone any kind of harm. This article looks at some of those sites.

Why download music online?

Instant download
Downloading music online is becoming more and more popular. You do not have to wait around for stores to open to get your favourite tracks.
You can get them downloaded instantly on your PC or laptop, and then transfer them to your audio mp3 players.
If you like to share music files, then sharing the free ones that you find is just the same as sharing any other type of music that you may download.
Mp3 music online is awash with music sites offering tracks for free.
Hearing the song's excerpt
Another benefit of downloading music online is that you often get a chance to hear a short excerpt of the song, before you buy it.
This avoids the problem of searching for music that you weren't exactly sure of the title.
It also gives you a chance to sample some music that you might not have listened to otherwise.
Most of these audio clips are sections taken from the main parts of the song, usually the first verse and the chorus. They usually last from ten seconds to anywhere up to a minute.

Where to get free music online.

There are a number of websites, which allow users to download music straight to their PC or laptop.
Some of these are website downloads (where you get it straight from the site, with no downloading software to install), and some of them require a downloading software, which is usually free, and easy to install. The best music sharing sites and mp3 download sites are listed below.
Amazon.com
Amazon offers free mp3 downloads to its customers. It sells its music without digital rights management.
This means that you are free to use the song for your own purposes, and the digital rights to it are not tracked.
Amazon offers hundreds of songs for free, and not all of them are bands that no-one has ever heard of.
The Live Music Archive
The Live Music Archive has a huge database of musicians, who had their live music recordings uploaded online for anyone to download.
ccMixter
This website allows you to download music, which has been released under the Creative Commons Licence.
This means that you can change it as much as you like for free. People repeatedly make remixes, and upload them onto this site, and its diverse range of musicians is excellent.

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